Science Quotes

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
Josh Billings
P. l. berge - in science as in love, too much concentration on...
A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.
G. H. Hardy
Statistics The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Evan Esa
Stanilaus - science when well - digested is nothing but good...
Engineering is the art or science of making practical.
Samuel C. Florman
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
The conscience of a people is their power.
John Dryden
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
Aristotle
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters".
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
Chapman Cohen, (1868 - 1954)
Human science is an uncertain guess.
Edward G. Prio
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.
Robert K. Merton
The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.
Immanuel Kant, The Science of Right
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Arthur C. Clarke
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.
Erich Fromm
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Oscar Wilde
Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.
General Omar Bradley
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
George Sewell
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Peter Borden
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.
Pope Pius XI
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.
Ivan Pavlov
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King Jr.
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self - Destroying.
Arthur C. Clarke
There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates
Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - - The apathy of human beings.
Helen Kelle
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau
In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
French Prove